CSC 26-2 – Big Events Produce Big Results
142 Fellows from 25 countries joined DKI APCSS's Comprehensive Security Course 26-2 to build resilient solutions and strengthen Indo-Pacific security cooperation.
New Security Nexus Perspective: Deterrence of Biotechnological Threats
A new Security Nexus Perspective paper by Ethan Allen examines the geopolitical risks of rapid biotechnology advances, China's rise as a biotech superpower, the threat of bioweapons, and how the U.S. and its allies can strengthen deterrence, detection, and response in this critical arena of great power competition.
Multinational Armaments Resilience Seminar 2026
The Multinational Armaments Resilience Seminar, or MARS, is an annual program designed to strengthen the resilience and integration of multinational defense industrial bases. Conducted over four non-consecutive week-long modules, MARS brings together government, military and industry professionals from across [...]
New Book Release: America’s Strategic Edge
Discover “America’s Strategic Edge: Deterrence, Lethality, and Warrior Ethos in the Indo-Pacific,” Volume 2 of the Strategic Edge Series from DKI APCSS, exploring key pillars of U.S. and allied security in the region.
Organizing Power
Resilience in the twenty-first century depends less on raw technological superiority than on a nation’s ability to organize power coherently, legitimately, and at speed across government, the military, industry, and society under sustained pressure. Through a comparative analysis of democratic resilience and China’s military-civil fusion model, the chapter argues that the United States must strengthen whole-of-society coordination and public-private integration to preserve legitimacy, maintain escalation control, and sustain strategic advantage during prolonged competition.
Warrior Ethos in Hybrid War
In an era of hybrid warfare and machine-speed decision cycles, the decisive advantage lies not only in technology or lethality, but in the cognitive, moral, and psychological endurance of the force. The chapter argues that resilience, post-traumatic growth, and fortitude are essential components of the warrior ethos, sustaining the ethical clarity, disciplined judgment, and purposeful persistence necessary for deterrence, readiness, and long-term strategic legitimacy.
Warrior Traditions, Modern Strength
Warrior traditions across the Indo-Pacific remain living sources of cohesion, professionalism, and operational effectiveness, shaping how militaries train, lead, and cooperate in coalition environments. By examining martial legacies from Oceania to Northeast and Southeast Asia—and linking them to the American tradition of disciplined initiative and decentralized command—the chapter demonstrates how shared warrior values strengthen interoperability, trust, and coalition resilience in an era of distributed operations and strategic competition.
Lead at the Edge
Leadership remains the decisive asymmetric advantage in an era where success depends not only on technology and firepower, but on the ability to integrate Ethos, Adaptability, Connection, and Decision into disciplined action at the edge. Through the E-A-C-D framework, the chapter demonstrates how strategic leaders build resilient teams, align alliances, empower decentralized execution, and sustain moral clarity under the pressures of all-domain warfare.
Allied Shipyards, American Strength
Maritime deterrence in the Indo-Pacific depends not only on fleet size, but on the industrial system capable of sustaining, repairing, and regenerating combat power at speed. The chapter demonstrates how aligning allied shipbuilding capacity with American standards, modernizing domestic infrastructure, and integrating distributed sustainment hubs across trusted partners can transform industrial resilience into operational availability—and availability into strategic advantage.
Algorithmic Speed and The Future of Lethality
Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) are emerging as the U.S. military’s answer to China’s system-centric approach to warfare, which seeks to disrupt and paralyze the connective architecture of joint operations. The chapter argues that deterrence in the Indo-Pacific will depend less on platform dominance than on the ability to integrate forces, fuse information, and sustain resilient, allied-enabled command and control through CJADC2 across contested multi-domain environments.
